I had a nearly identical situation happen in a Juco match last week. In this case, I was the R1. The play was slightly different, but we had to answer the same question about whether a net fault or an illegal attack occurred.
My R2 whistled the net, but I chose to call the illegal attack. I judged that the blocker touched the ball before the attacker (setter) touched the net.
In our conversation after the match, my partner said, "I'm impressed that you got the back row call". I honestly didn't know how to take that. But that's a different post, probably.
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